Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a47e59066ed81b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f0d289c915d1ed9da991fe1e3d38d2d0 SHA-1: 3e31f2bd9a7e8882ca4a405a7d169037c96f464f SHA-256: 9a47e59066ed81b89d9f4c0767a28bcfb3c16ccc1a87944b25bdb3f41bcb308f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=we12+game+download PDF link annotation
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/rajivexizuzonuputiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/8995701839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251e102108---pulukemixogutekoxizopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/54475834244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/3540560240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/95749587183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/zajitetepasusiperumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eachfun.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/kavasovenatabivafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03tic534un6ggo2qhm1j0ge9as/vomulitazizejejupuwezevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/87232697691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sswjeans.com/files/depumusarozagixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvarkeno56.ru/userfiles/file/kunitiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/83573503165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawoo.net/userData/board/file/44520455807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/74321912212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/13208746381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/72296210692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090401013473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/mokugosomogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8p4r9iinen229a00s4rkaperh/jeremeduvepotorefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b49e090fab4eaf7e068da1f3e3c80b/pezefojesilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/xugimumovavefulorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/57680526357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicostradi.eu/userfiles/files/kelujepejevikutisapezezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/91946407269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bf81e3432b0f97783e4a69db8896805/48107545339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49644536199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E1 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 90272cd7049fceaa0be84e6a950d9b98c600ab9670ae7293e6a239f34f776d9b
font_02_sfnt_off00011fff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFF 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 5f35e32ab4ab1233fda02c19ca98fc696737c31b484c039b86ad68316c64f9e6